Shojin Cooking Artist

Reina Aso is a well-known Shojin cooking artist in Japan. Shojin is a traditional Japanese cooking style, derives from Buddhist priest's daily meal, and is totally without meat.

She was born in 1982 in Nagasaki Prefecture. As she grew up traveling around Japan, she learned various, of almost all of 47 Prefectures, local cooking style naturally.

In 2009, she married the guy who was a son of a head priest of Buddhist temple. After the marriage, she has learned detail Shojin cooking recipes until now.

Now, she organizes Reina's Shojin cooking class in Tokyo, and is working hard for TV programs, writing articles for magazines. She is also a president of Lekue Cooking Assosiation.